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T. SCOTT.

` SLBIGH. No. 306,535. Patented Oct. 14, 1884.

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THOMAS SCOTT, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO MAGGIE L. SCOTT, OFSAME PLAGE.

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SPECIFICATGN :forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,535, dated Octoberla, 1884.

Application iled January 21, 1884.

To @ZZ whom t may concern Be it known that I, THOMAs SCOTT, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of St. Paul,

Vin the county of Ramsey, in the State of Minnesota, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Sleighs, of which the followingspecification is a full, clear, and exact description, reference beingalso had to the ac companying drawings, in which- Figure l is aperspective view of one of the pairs of runners. Fig. 2 is aperspectiveview of the axle detached. Fig. 3 is a perspective view ofthe couplingsleeve detached. Fig. 4 is a perspective'view of one of theswivel-collars detached. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the axle asformed when the couplingsleeve is not used.

This invention is intended to be used more particularly to replace thewheels of ordinary wagons, carriages, Src., when sleighs are required,but may be used as permanent parts of ordinary sleighs. Two sets of therunners will be used on each vehicle; but for the pur pose ofillustration I have shown only one set, A A2 representing the runners,and B B2 the raves connected by their ends to the ends of the runners,as shown.

C G2 C3 C'L are curved and bent braces con necting the runners A A2 andraves B B2, and riveted, bolted', or otherwise fastened to the raves andrunners.

Upon top of each of the raves B B2, above `the braces, are chocks c a2,having semicircular hollows in their upper parts, in which roundedsections Z1 b2 (see Figs. 2`and 5) of a square axle, D, are held by capsa3 a4, the axle thus being free to revolve upon the chocks or bearingsthus formed. At suitable points between the ends of the axle two othersections or journals, b3 b4, are rounded and shouldered, as shown inFigs. 2 and 5, and fitting into these rounded portions are collars E E2.The axle is free to revolve Within these collars, and each collar isprovided with two eyes, e' e2, by which they are connected to theforward upper ends of the runners A A2 by braces F F2, and to thenearest meeting-points of the braces C C2 C3 C4 by braces G G2, as shownin Fig. 1. By this arrangement each (No model.)

runner and its attached raves and braces are free to oscillate upon theaxle independently of the other one, so that if one runner runs over anobstruction or into a hollow it will turn upon the axle, and not affecteither the body of the vehicle or the other runners.

By means of the braces G G2 each runner and its attached raves andbraces are rigidly held in an upright position at or nearly at rightangles to the axle, but at the same time,

by being attached at one end to the loose collars E E2,the braces do notinterfere with the free oscillation of the runners upon the axle. Thebraces F F2 also serve an important function in holding the runnersparallel with each other, and at right angles to the axle horizontally,while at the same time not interfering with the free oscillation of therunners around the axle.

Extra steel shoes may be attached to the runners, if desired. Theserunners may be made as light or heavy as required, to adapt them for useunder the heaviest freight-wagons or the lightest buggies or gigs. Theaxle will sometimes be made in two parts, D D2, as shown in Figs. l and2, with its inner ends secured in a hollow sleeve, H, by set-screws gg2, so that the runners may be adjusted nearer to or farther away fromeach other, to adapt them to any width of vehicle. This adjustment willnot always be required, however, as most vehicles are nearly the samewidth, but it will be found very convenient under some circumstances.

In Fig. 5 the axle is shown in one solid piece, as it will be formedwhen the sleeve H is not used.

Having described my invention and set forth its merits, what I claimisl. The combination of an axle, D, affixed to the body of a vehicle,and provided with journals b b2 near its ends, and with shoulderedrounded sections or journals b3 b4 on its middle part, raves B B2,provided with bearings a. a2,receiving the end axle-journals, collars EE2, turning on the middle axle-journals, runners A A2, having thereonoppositelycurved braces C C2 and G3 C4, as described, braces F F2,extending from the collars E E2 e l v V206,535

to the forward ends of the runners, and braces runners with saidcollars, substantially as and G G2, extending from the said collars tothe for the purpose specied.

braces C C2 and C3 C?, substantially as and for In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set the purpose herein specied. my hand in presence of twosubscribing Wit- 5 2. The combination of an axle formed' in nesses.

two parts, with its inner ends connected by a sleeve, H, and rigidlyattached to the body of a vehicle, runners loosely pivoted to the outerWitnesses:

v ends of said axle, collars E Eloose upon said C. N. WOODWARD,

Io axle, and braces F F2 G G2, connecting said LoUIs FEEsER, Sr.

THOM AS l SCOTT.

